Improvement in canes and umbrellas combined



Patented Nov.2,1875.

w51 ATTORNEYS INVENT'OR N. FEI'ERS. FMOTOMTHDGRAFHB?, WASHINGTON. u C.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE JOHN BOYD, OF EAST BOSTON, MASS., ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF `Hrsnrelir To CHARLES SMITH AND WILLIAM MCKINNON, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CANES AND UMBRELLAS COMBINED..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,406, dated November 2, 1875 application filed July 3, 1875.

' Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Combined Umbrellas. and Canes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and igures of reference marked thereon. Y

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a plan view of my device. Fig 2 is a vertical central sectional view of the same; and Figs. 3, 4, 5, and 6 are detail views thereof.

This invention has relation to improvements in that class of umbrellas whereof the case is made of a rigid material, so that when the former is placed within the case the latter may be used as a cane.

The object of the invention is to dispense with a supplementary stick for the umbrella, thereby lessening its bulk, and to use the case itselfas an umbrella-stick, as will be hereinafter more fully setforth and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a tubular casing for an umbrella, which is of adequate dimensions for receiving the ribs r, the annulus or ring a to which they are pivoted, and the covering whereby sun or rain is prevented from reaching the person of the carrier. rJhe ferrule end of this tube is closed by a preferably tapering plug, B, terminating in a cylindrical rabbet, .b, of suitable length, which may be of iron or steel, pointed or blunt, as I may elect. The diameter of the rabbet bis the sameas that of the annulus or ring a, to which the ribs 1' of theumbrella are pivoted, and it is provided with a lug, d, radiating therefrom, for a purpose hereinafter explained.`

The annulus or ring a is provided with a groove, c, transverse to its diameter, which allows the lug d on rabbet b to be passed through it, and to be locked in position by giving the tubular sheath A a slight turn,

thereby causing the said lug to be brought in line with a notch, n, in the upper edge ot' the said annul-us, falling into which the umbrella will be locked against rotation independent ofthe said Sheath or casing.

It will of course be understood that the runner R is ofsufficient size to allow sheath A to be passed through it, and that a slight swell will be formed at the handle end of the sheath for the purpose of allowing the said ruimer to be received within the sheath.

Runner R is provided with a spring-bail, D, by means of which it is conveniently withdrawn from its sheath, which bail will have one of its ends extending through the cylindrical portion of the runner, so that when the umbrella is hoisted or raised the end of the said bail will be received into an opening, o, of corresponding size in the sheath, and will prevent the shade from being inopportunely lowered.

Insteadot' the above a spring may be secured to the cylindrical portion, with its end projecting through an aperture therein, which end will fall when the umbrella is raised into the said perforation. I Sheath or case A may be ot' iron, wood, vul'- canized rubber, or of any other suitably rigid material, and when the umbrella is inclosed within it is designed to be closed by a head or cap, E, as shown in Fig. l.

With a view to causing ribs fr to lie snugly together, thereby reducing the bulk of the umbrella, their lower ends are bent, as'shown in Fig. 6, the concavity of the curve being outward.

By this means the diameter, and consequently the bulk, of the sheath, will be decreased, thereby reducing the sheathing to a size such that it .may be conveniently manipulated.

By sharpening thev ends of 'rabibet b the combined umbrella is adapted to be sucoessfully used as an alpenstock in.mountain climbing. 4

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination of a spring-bail, D, 'with :t runner, R, and a perforated sheath or ease, -In testimony that I claim the above I have A, substantially as specified. I hereunto subscribed my name in rhepresence 2. Thesheath A, having the rabbet b, and of two witnesses. n 111g d, at its upper end, in combination with JOHN BOYD. the annulus a, having the groove e and notch Witnesses: n, the rib f3' runner R, and cover, substan- F. J. MUNROE, -tianlly` as described. JOHN O. GRADY. 

